Background
Crispin, Mark Reed was born on July 19, 1956 in Camden, New Jersey, United States. Son of Donald Tyler Crispin and Lucille Ann (Weaver) Hafer.
Crispin, Mark Reed was born on July 19, 1956 in Camden, New Jersey, United States. Son of Donald Tyler Crispin and Lucille Ann (Weaver) Hafer.
Bachelor of Science, Stevens Institute of Technology, 1977.
He is the author or co-author of numerous RFCs. And is the principal author of UW IMAP, one of the reference implementations of the IMAP4rev1 protocol described in Reconstruction Finance Corporation 3501. He also designed the mix mail storage format.
Crispin earned a Bachelor of Surgery in Technology and Society from Stevens Institute of Technology in 1977.
From 1977 to 1988, he was a Systems Programmer at Stanford University. He developed the first production PDP-10 32-bit address ARPAnet NCP for the WAITS operating system, and wrote or rewrote most of the WAITS ARPAnet protocol suite.
Prior to that time most systems only supported the original 8-bit addresses. During that time, he wrote the infamous Reconstruction Finance Corporation 748, the only document specifically marked in the Reconstruction Finance Corporation index with note date of issue.
And a series of Telnet implementations for the Incompatible Timesharing System, WAITS, and Total Operations Processing System-20 operating systems whose escape behavior was playfully immortalized by Guy Steele in the April 1984 Communications of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) as The Telnet Song.
In the early 1980s, shortly after becoming the Systems Programmer for the Stanford Computer Science Department"s Total Operations Processing System-20 system, he became interested in electronic mail software and systems Thereafter this became his primary focus. He became the principal developer of the Total Operations Processing System-20 mailsystem, and reportedly was still running Total Operations Processing System-20 systems at his residence in 2009.
lieutenant was at Stanford, in the 1985-1988 period, that IMAP was first developed.
From 1988 to 2008, he was a Software Engineer at the University of Washington, where much of the work in developing and popularizing IMAP and building what became UW IMAP was done. He forked UW IMAP into Panda IMAP in May 2008.
In 2005, he wrote Reconstruction Finance Corporation 4042, his second April Fools" Day Reconstruction Finance Corporation describing UTF-9 and UTF-18, encodings of Unicode optimized for the PDP-10. In August 2008, Crispin joined Messaging Architects as a Senior Software Engineer.
At Messaging Architects, he wrote an entirely new IMAP server based upon a distributed mail store, and extended the mix format to support stubbing (via a mechanism called virtual mailboxes) and metadata.
On 19 November 2012, it was announced that Crispin was terminally ill and in hospice care, and he died on December 28, 2012. In April 2013, Crispin was posthumously awarded the Distinguished Alumni Award in Science and Technology by his alma mater, Stevens Institute of Technology.
Member National Rifle Association, American Atheists (life), Bayerische Motoren Werke Car Club American, Bayerische Motoren Werke Automobile Club American.